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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McGrath, W
• Applegate, C[Herausgeber]
• Frontz, S[Herausgeber]
• Marchand, S[Herausgeber]

Titel

German Freedom and the Greek Ideal : The Cultural Legacy from Goethe to Mann [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Editors' Acknowledgments; Stephanie's Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; Introduction; 1 Freedom and Authority: Goethe's Faust and the Greek War of Independence; 2 Freedom in Architecture: Gottfried Semper and the Greek Ideal; 3 From Political Freedom to Self-Denial: Wagner's Ring and the Revolutions of 1848; 4 Nietzsche and the Freedom of Self-Overcoming; 5 From Self-Denial to Political Freedom: The Odyssey of Thomas Mann; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.
• English